Our House

I just ran across these pictures of before we bought our house and during the remodeling we did on the bathroom. I thought I would share because I feel like our house seems so different now. We took the pictures while we were looking at it before we decided to buy. Andy fell in love with the house but I have come to love the house after living here for almost 2 1/2 years. When looking at these pictures I didn't realize that when we were looking at this house I was less than a month aways from giving birth!! How scary and what were we thinking!! By the way, our house we had before this one sold the first day on the market by the first person who looked at it, so we were in a very stressful place when buying this house. Overall I am very pleased with the work that we have done and look forward to spending many years here.

Here is a picture of the kitchen before we striped the wallpaper and painted. We also put in all new appliances.

This is the kitchen now. You will have to excuse the clutter as I am into buying in bulk when stuff is on sale (smartspending) and we run out of places to put the extra food.

This is a the hallway before we painted it a real color.

This is the hallway now. We painted it a light yellow, which really brightened it up and hung a nice glass door up at the entrance of the hallway and the living room.

This is what is now the boys room. We did paint over the nice wood paneling. It didn't really fit in with a nursery theme and this was the biggest room, which we really needed having 2 cribs.

Here is a picture of the worst room in the house before...the bathroom. Before we remodeled it, it had lovely gold and black wallpaper (that took Andy and my Dad an entire day to strip and that was with a steamer). A vanity counter that was cream with a light green top. Of course, the yellow tile on the floor and halfway up the walls. The wall tile is actually not too bad, but the floor had to go.



This is the bathroom floor that we ripped out. A variety of yellow with stained brown grout. I almost forgot how ugly this floor was.

Andy and a friend from work took the tile up and put in this nice new and more neutral tile down. It took them a weekend to do the biggest part of the work, but it took Andy another 2 months to finish. The bathroom as a whole is not completely finished now and he started this work in January! There are only 2 minor things left and I think they may never be fixed.